Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, like when we do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger, like when we let down a friend. Some of us escape the pangs of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past. And sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change our ways. But our biggest regrets are not for the things we did...but the things we didn't do.

LUCAS SCOTT, "Nothing Left to Say But Goodbye" (2006)

Last week my mom asked how I like going to school. I told her not as much as I like coming home from it!

LUCAS SCOTT, "You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)" (2008)

Seven hundred days...high school. Out of twenty or thirty thousand. Can't you see past that? It's only seven hundred days!

The important thing is not to be bitter over life's disappointments. Learn to let go of the past and recognize that every day won't be sunny. And when you find yourself lost in the darkness and despair, remember it's only in the black of night you can see the stars, and those stars will lead you back home.

COACH WHITEY DURHAM, "Just Watch the Fireworks" (2006)

Kahlil Gibran once wrote: "Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul. If either be broken, you could but toss and drift or else be held at a standstill amid seas. For reason, running alone, is a force confining. And passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

Happiness doesn't come cheap. Hell, if it did we would all be smiling.

DAN SCOTT, "Are You True?" (2003)

Sometimes it seems like you are the only one in the world who's struggling, who's frustrated, unsatisfied, barely getting by. But that feeling's a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes-someone to help us hear the music in their world, to remind us that it won't always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will find you.

LUCAS SCOTT, "The Same Deep Water as You" (2006)

When I was a freshman, I wasn't a very good person. I mean, sure I was popular and dating seniors, but as a person I was pretty lost. And over the last four years I've been forced to grow up. I stopped letting boys define me and I started believing in myself and in my potential. And I ran for student council president and I designed a clothing line. And somewhere along the way the lost little party girl became the girl on the wall of honor. And I know what I did was wrong. I know. But the girl I was when I came to this school...I'm not sure she would have. And isn't that the point of high school? Isn't that what you guys have been trying to teach us for the last four years?